Quote Originally Posted by the_real_MSU_is_us View Post
LSU has already pulled WAY more talent than us though, amd they started from a better position.

We lost our best starter (Smith), best reliever (Nixon), our best hitter per the overall stats (Ledbetter) our 3rd best hitter per overall stats (Clark)... and all we added in the Portal is an upgraded 3B, the 5+ERA Miami guy, and... uh... Hope Hujesak makes a massive jump, and hope Montgomery comes, and hope our 8+ ERA guys turn into studs this offseason, and hope every guy coming g back from TJ is ready to go? It's an epic failure so far. We probably have a few of these things break our way, a few break bad for us, but overall I don't see any evidence the team will be significantly improved

LSU went out to Tulane and got a better ace than our Miami guy, is now landing Holman, landed an Arizona OF with better stats than Montgomery, and got a very highly rated by scouts pitcher from UCLA coming back from TJ as a lottery ticket. Will they win the NC next year? Probably not. But they used the Portal to add 2 stud starters and a stud bat, we used it to get 1 ok starter and 1 ok bat.
They also lost alot more than we did. They lost CF, 1B, 2B, SS, DH and others.